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... how much of a legend it had become in the West until about 15 years ago; now they get over 30,000 visitors a year. We had a really interesting guided tour and got to see all the details of the well-known story, including the glider that the prisoners had secretly built, planning to launch it off the pitched roof, but the war ended before they had a chance to do so. However, an English team built an exact replica from the original ...

... 10 each for a concert starting in 15 minutes. Seemed fortuitous so off we went to get in line -the concert was nice although the pews were uncomfortable. We bailed after an hour n went to check out the two GDR museums. The first one had almost no English n was done very 1989 style so it was disappointing. -the second one was better n explained the brief history of GDR from ...

... or activity on Sundays. In a smaller city like Leipzig this makes everything rather quiet. It strikes me as somewhat of a student town. I'm in no rush to get to Munich tomorrow so I might do a bit of an explore before I leave.

When I say explore, I really mean go back to the video game store which had lots of retro consoles in the windows. They had a Philips CD-i. No one had a Philips CD-i.

... eat-sleep needs a shake up to reinvigorate me. That's why it was great to hang out with people yesterday at Christiania (who would've thought there'd be a commune like that in the middle of Copenhagen?), and it's been fun to visit a few familiar faces as I travel. Still, I don't have the energy, nor any interest in partying like many of the other tourists I come across seem to do. Unless there's something unique about a place, like in Christiania yesterday ...

... and young people can be seen walking the streets and reading on the library steps. This town was my favorite of all the ones I visited during my trip, partly because of the variety, and I could really see myself going to school, living, or working there.

When I found Tomaskirche in the town center, its beauty struck me. It is a Lutheran church, most famous as the church where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a Kapellmeister. It was built in ...